Fun. - The Gambler Lyrics

Slow down, we've got time left to be lazy
All the kids are bloom from babies into flowers in our eyes
We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
I don't care to beg your pardon, we should live until we die

We were barely eighteen when we crossed collective hearts
It was cold, but it got warm when you barely crossed my eye
And you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight

I swear when I grow up I won't just buy you a rose
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely
For even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
I will not leave, I will not leave 'til it's on time
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side

It was the winter of '86, all the fields had frozen over
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
And now he's turned into a man, though he thinks just like his mother
He believes we're all just lovers, he sees hope in everyone

And even though she moved away, we always get calls from our daughter
She has eyes just like her father's, they are blue when skies are gray
And just like him she never stops, never takes the day for granted
Works for everything that's handed to her, never once complained

You think that I nearly lost you when the doctors tried to take you away
But like the night you took my hand beside the fire thirty years ago
'Til this day, you swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
But it's not time, you never quit in all your life
So just take my hand and know that I will never leave your side
You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side

You come home from work, and you kiss me on the eye
You curse the dogs, you say that I should never feed them what is ours
So we move out to the garden, look at everything we've grown
And the kids are coming home so I'll set the table; you can make the fire

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Engaged now and this will be our wedding song. Thanks, Fun. for writing such a beautiful song that's not cheesy.

Brenda Kenniston

This was my son's wedding song.

Philip Hohle

This is our life.

Erkki Paunonen

<3

Essence Stowe

beautiful..

Dillon Hoy

:)

Anonymous

alert(" ") I love them, and this song so much! I cried when they performed it. They're my favorite band, and it's such a sweet song about Nate's parents.

Anonymous

Saw this performed live in Phoenix. So beautiful. It is so amazing how much his parents love each other and how he writes songs about them.

Anonymous

i love this song so so so much.. i cry every time i hear it. i love you so much babe and i hope this song reminds you of what we'll have one day..

Anonymous

This song is so moving any song nate sings youcan always hear so much of his heart in

Anonymous

I didn't know it was about his parents. In moline they were singing a random song about his grandmas. I am obbsessed with this song

Anonymous

I love you Nicole...I'm sorry for not reading this earlier. I loved you before the Storm, I loved you during the Storm, and I'll love you for all eternity

Anonymous

I saw him perform this in Phoenix, AZ with his parents and grandparents there, and god, I was bawling by the end. He even had to stop a couple times to collect himself. It was so so beautiful.

Anonymous

This song is amazing. I, too, got choked up while listening to it in my car. The song "On Your Porch" by The Format also references Nate's parents... you can tell he looks up to them so much. Such a beautiful song.

Anonymous

This song gives me hope for music. As do all their other songs. Nate and the rest of Fun. are so fantastic at what they do and are masterful with what they create and I hope to see them in concert!

Anonymous

I love this song. I didn't know it was about his parents! That's so rad... I could listen to it a million times & never stop smiling when I listen to his lyrics.